Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew is honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist. We look forward to sharing Walter’s work with church leaders and faithful people worldwide. May his powerful and reflective writings inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.
Between and Beyond Certitudes
Walter Brueggemann writes on the church's potential as an outsider to the social order, and how it can reach across societal stratification.
Victims of Predatory Capitalism
The human domination of creation has specialized in unrestrained, arrogant dominion of creation as if it were a useful system and resource without limitation.
Consumer Economy: Discontented and Ungrateful
The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel reflected, long and deep, upon... the world of accumulation, greed, and restless satisfaction of endless appetites.
Gifts Beyond Explanation
It is God the creator who sends,
grows,
produces,
dispatches.
in a generative summons to work required of the earth.
Dig, Baby, Dig!
Indeed for modern day leaders “drill, baby drill” becomes the solution to all economic problems. The community gathered around them, moreover, is simply a replay of the old exhibitionist effort of the ancient regimes that exuded hubris, recognizing no restraints.
Insatiable!
Because we know about trust in the endless, generous abundance of the creator, we are able to practice abundance in the neighborhood, and so generate wellbeing for our neighbors who themselves may lack sufficient resources.
Calling a Different World Into Being
So imagine—a church of hope that gathers yet again to affirm the abundance, hospitality, forgiveness, and peace-making reality of God.
Celebrative Dining
In this column, Walter Brueggemann writes on James Baldwin's unfinished work, and how feasts reflect the restorative and abundant power of God and his promises.
